Dr. Huynh Thanh Tan

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Dr. Huynh Thanh Tan

Dr. Huynh Thanh Tan

 

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About

Dr. Huynh Thanh Tan is an expert working in the field of Psychology – Psychiatry. He is the valedictorian of the Psychiatry resident training program, graduated with Honors from the Internal Medicine training program, Master of Medicine and Specialist I in Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City.

Dr. Huynh Thanh Tan has completed intensive training courses in Psychopathology, Individual and Group Psychotherapy in the United States, France and Australia.

In addition to being a clinician, Dr. Thanh Tan is a former lecturer, undergraduate and postgraduate  academic affairs of the Department of Psychiatry, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (VNU Ho Chi Minh City), Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HUTECH) and Van Lang University. The doctor has given training sessions on Mental Health Care skills for many school and business organizations (Oracle, Fulbright University., University of Natural Sciences…).

Currently, Dr. Huynh Thanh Tan is working at Vinmec Times City Integrated Mental Health Care Center as a Psychiatrist.

His treatment philosophy: “Each of us has difficulties and challenges in life, I am just luckier to have been trained with skills and have support tools to be able to cope with them”. I want to share these things with you, so that your journey will be less difficult.”

Roles

Psychiatrist, Intergrated Mental Health Care Center

Specialties

  • Others

Workplace

Services

  • Specialized on Group of Patients: adolescent, young adults, middle-age, elderly people.
  • Assess and Diagnose mental health disorders: depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, psychosis (delusions and hallucinations), bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive, post-trauma, substance abuse, behavioral disorders in dementia, personality disorders, dissociative disorders, eating and sexual disorders,… 
  • Create Individualized Treatment Plan based on Medical Evidence :
  • Pharmacological treatment: medication selection based on personalization factors, side effects management, and adjustment based on treatment efficacy monitoring
    • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS): ultize magnetic field (safe, non-invasive) to affect certain parts of the brain, treating mental health disorders. Applied for patients who are not suitable for pharmacological therapy (ie. pregnant and lactating women), or pharmacological resisted patients.
    • Sleep medicine: treatment of sleep disorders by pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures. Using i-CBT therapy to help patients gain healthy sleep care habits. Use polysomnography and psychometric scales to assess sleep quality, actual hours of sleep, and detect causes of sleep disturbances.

2021 – 2023:

–           Online Psychotherapy Certified Professional

Courses of note: Trauma-Focused ACT, ACT for Perfectionism and People Pleasing, ACT for Grief and Loss, ACT for Adolescents

2017 – 2020:

  • Resident Doctor, First Degree Specialist, Master of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
  • Method of analyzing time-series data, Ton Duc Thang University.
  • Prognostic and causal analysis, Cho Ray Hospital.
  • Advanced statistics and data analysis, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Writing research report, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Search, manage and cite references in research, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City.

2011 – 2017: Doctor of Medicine, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine.

From Sep 2023: Psychiatrist of  Mental Health Care Center – Vinmec Times City International Hospital

2022 – 2023: Lecturer, Postgraduate academic affairs of the Department of Psychiatry, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine.

2020 – 2022: Lecturer, Undergraduate academic affairs of the Department of Psychiatry, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine.

2017 – 2019: Team Leader of Psychiatric Residents, Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital.

Member of the Vietnam Psychiatric Association

2023:

  • T. T., Nguyen. N. T. T., Nguyen. T. D. P., & Tran. T. C. (2022). Vietnamese Version of Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia at an Outpatient Memory Clinic: A Reliability and Validity Study. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 12, 34–42. https://doi.org/10.1159/000522623
  • Practical solutions to popularize psychotherapeutic activities in schools in Ho Chi Minh City, National Scientific Conference “School Counseling – Prevalence – Solutions – Digital transformation” 2023
  • Anxiety, depression and related factors among university students in Ho Chi Minh City, The grassroots research project of Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Student Association, 2023

2022:

  • Rare Case Report: Akathisia with Genital Manifestation, The Proceeding of Hoan My Sai Gon Hospital’s Medical Scientific Conferences 2022

Oral Presentation

  • Invited speaker, “Vietnamese Version of Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia at an Outpatient Memory Clinic: A Reliability and Validity Study”, The 4th Edition of Innovations and State of the Art in ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA (ISAD-2023), Spain, Barcelona, Sep 13-14, 2023.

Thesis

2020:

  • Validity of the Vietnamese version of Cornell Scale for Depression in assessing depression in patients with dementia – master thesis, published by UMP HCMC, Vietnam

Independent project

2017:

  • Research article: “Assessing the relationship of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of direct caregivers about nutrition in caring for malnourished children and related factors in children aged 0-24 months old in District 1 in 2017” – June 2017.

Certificate of Merit from the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City in the prevention of Covid-19 epidemic in 2021

Certificate of Merit from the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City in participating in implementing the remote health care model and 1022 consultation hotline during the period of social distancing in Ho Chi Minh City in 2021